copying time is slow

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sick osiris

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ive notived that when I copy or cut files from one hardrive to another, it takes a very long time and also tends to lag my system quite a bit. Is there anything I can do to fix this and what determines the speed for copying files so I know what hardrives to get again...
 
First it depends on what type of drives you are running as well as the speed in rpms. Here with two 250gb eide hard drives a slow down will be seen when going to copy or move either several large files or a large number of small files and folders they are in from the primary drive to the storage partition on the second. The two hard drives there run at 7,200rpm. Older drives would be seen running at 5,400rpm.

SATA hard drives run at the same 7,200rpm speed but transfer data and files on a faster bus. This allows less time to be spent trying to access files stored on that type of drive. If your drives become fragmented and disorganized from heavy use that will also see slowdowns with Windows and other programs as well as moving files around.
 
If the present had been the one planned I would already have a good array already running in it. But I ended up with two ide drives when the old case went and the first drive was making clicking sounds. It doesn't do that now in the new case as an ide storage drive with the Vista beta running on it.

But that there was not the preferred as SATA would offer the larger capacity for storing files as well as the faster access. Instead I ended up building a new case off schedule. A good pair of SATAs will be in the next one.
 
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